Nah, it’s got nothing to do with intelligence. This was a primal reaction, he’s so instinctively racist that, at the mere sight of a black person, his first thought is “kill”

How does that change anything?

Directed by Alan Tis

compelling argument thanks

Geralt is actually pretty dang emotional/vulnerable in the books. As much as I love the games, CDPR did his character a huge disservice in their quest to make him a blank slate for players.

In the books, Witchers don’t really draw their swords like you’d expect from games and movies — mostly because they’re never really supposed to be in a situation where they’d need to. They’re not knights, and have no use for a weapon if they’re not on the clock. Their whole MO is meticulous preparation, like spending…

Are you serious? The bulk of Yang’s platform is literally based around addressing automation, why do you think he’s such a big proponent of UBI? Blame the terrible debate format for not even giving him a chance to speak.

Yeah the way they’ve managed to gamify shopping doesn’t really sit right with me. I don’t really understand how people can be mad at lootboxes for preying on addictive behaviour but I don’t really hear a word about this.

One thing I noticed watching some TFT gameplay is that all the heroes look so... indistinct. They’re a lot smaller than the other Auto Chess games, and the silhouettes are so undefined that I can’t tell who’s supposed to be what at a glance.

I mean that’s just the reality of business. If other platforms have exclusives but you’re letting yours roam free, you are straight-up putting yourself at a disadvantage.

I can’t speak to Source 2 but back when I liked to mess around with it in CS:S and TF2, Hammer was an absolute bastard. So many janky workarounds to do the simplest things.

Iron Galaxy isn’t some huge AAA studio but they’ve been around -you might remember them from the bungled Arkham Knight PC port. There’s a really good discussion from an old Bombcast he was on about that, a lot of that is actually pretty relevant to the current discussions about crunch/management in games.

100%. The Christchurch video and hate speech are completely fucked (and probably illegal, so Twitch would have a leg to stand on with those), but lumping those in with porn and pirated content seems like a real corporate scumfuck move.

For real, talk about burying the lede with that headline. This has massive implications for consumer rights - it’s super fucked to lump porn and pirated movies in with mass shooters and nazis.

It really doesn’t have anything to do with chess beyond being tile-based, it’s really more of a turn-based strategy game. Kind of like a mix between Tetris 99, Fire Emblem, and a tower defense game.

And which games would those be, exactly?

Yep, mobile version is scheduled to drop next week with the Open Beta. Right now you have to be a Battlepass owner to play.

The mobile version has been out for a few weeks now, AFAIK there’s no actual involvement from Valve there.

Yeah, I feel that. They should introduce a third option (Perfectionist?) to just insta-fail a mission if anyone dies, would save some hassle at least.

I tried to play Awakening with permadeath enabled but I just couldn’t - I found myself rebooting my 3DS every time someone died, which was really just a more tedious way of playing on casual anyway.